Even though Toyota employed more than 36,000 Americans in 2003 (85% of my last vehicle, a 1997 Toyota Camry LE, was made in America) and even though the UAW supports the troops Marine reservists are no longer welcome to park…

Let’s hear it for the UAW

So the Marines can’t park in your lot? Or at least, those that drive ‘foreign’ cars – whatever that means. Perhaps it’s those Hondas made in Ohio. No two states share mutual animosity greater than Michigan and Ohio – at…

Like I needed another This story that Lileks pointed to doesn’t surprise me at all. A UAW hall in Detroit has decided to stop allowing Marine Reservists to use their parking lot. Fine, that is their right (after all it…

Michelle Malkin writes:

Michelle Malkin writes:

Michelle Malkin writes:

I received about twenty emails about this story (different media outlets around Detroit are writing about it), and I read about it on Michelle Malkin’s Blog and Lilek’s Bleat. The UAW leadership has lost it’s freakin’ mind.

Saw this over at Michelle Malkin’s blog. Set down your coffee before you read further, or you may be repainting your wall this weekend.

PRO-BUSH RESERVISTS KICKED OUT

Stunning. An ungracious and markedly obtuse 12 year-old Marxist with colic could not – I say not – have prepared a better press release…

Even though Toyota employed more than 36,000 Americans in 2003 (85% of my last vehicle, a 1997 Toyota Camry LE, was made in America) and even though the UAW supports the troops Marine reservists are no longer welcome to park…

So, I ask you: if your ’support’ gives comfort to and steadies the resolve of our enemies while simultaneously causing soldiers to want to punch you in the mouth, how can you beleive that you actually provide support?

I’ve grown weary of leftists attempting to appear something other than anti-American in their irrational, dangerous rage against President Bush, the military, the war on terror and the march of democracy throughout the Middle East. So, forgive me if …

I can understand their hostility to foreign cars, although fewer people might drive them if American cars were better designed, more reliable and more fuel efficient (can you tell that my last American car was a lemon?). However, I really take umbrag…

I have always had the attitude I that I want to be in American cars. Well items such as this make me reconsider. In any event quite a few of the Japanese automakers have many plants here in America.